Was reading up on This Day In History on the History Channel's site and found the article of General Fromm really interesting and made me yearn for more details!

I really wished they elaborated further on this part........




Like the subject titled states....who rattled on the General which inevitably lead to his execution? Anyone here got the low down on it or know of a site that does?

I couldn't give you speciics. Basically, they caught the vast majority of those directly involved in the plot quickly. They were submitted to severe torture and threats of retaliation to their families. Names were named of anyone even remotely connected, whch is how Rommel got drawn in. Though not a participamt, the fact that he had an inkling of what was going down brought about his "execution" They had him commit suicide to spare his name and family.

Do you think that if Rommel had not killed himself he would have been executed for his awareness of the plot? I wonder the impact in that would have in the German army not to mention the general public?